Spatial Imagination

Author : Simon C. Estok
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317327683
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Landscape, Seascape, and the Eco-Spatial Imagination written by Simon C. Estok and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-12 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written from within the best traditions of ecocritical thought, this book provides a wide-ranging account of the spatial imagination of landscape and seascape in literary and cultural contexts from many regions of the world. It brings together essays by authors writing from within diverse cultural traditions, across historical periods from ancient Egypt to the postcolonial and postmodern present, and touches on an array of divergent theoretical interventions. The volume investigates how our spatial imaginations become "wired," looking at questions about mediation and exploring how various traditions compete for prominence in our spatial imagination. In what ways is personal experience inflected by prevailing cultural traditions of representation and interpretation? Can an individual maintain a unique and distinctive spatial imagination in the face of dominant trends in perception and interpretation? What are the environmental implications of how we see landscape? The book reviews how landscape is at once conceptual and perceptual, illuminating several important themes including the temporality of space, the mediations of place that form the response of an observer of a landscape, and the development of response in any single life from early, partial thoughts to more considered ideas in maturity. Chapters provide suggestive and culturally nuanced propositions from varying points of view on ancient and modern landscapes and seascapes and on how individuals or societies have arranged, conceptualized, or imagined circumambient space. Opening up issues of landscape, seascape, and spatiality, this volume commences a wide-ranging critical discussion that includes various approaches to literature, history and cultural studies. Bringing together research from diverse areas such as ecocriticism, landscape theory, colonial and postcolonial theory, hybridization theory, and East Asian Studies to provide a historicized and global account of our ecospatial imaginations, this book will be useful for scholars of landscape ecology, ecocriticism, physical and social geography, postcolonialism and postcolonial ecologies, comparative literary studies, and East Asian Studies.

Author : Garret Pagenstecher Olberding
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110749920
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Exercise of the Spatial Imagination in Pre-Modern China written by Garret Pagenstecher Olberding and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2022-02-07 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is distinctive for its extraordinarily interdisciplinary investigations into a little discussed topic, the spatial imagination. It probes the exercise of the spatial imagination in pre-modern China across five general areas: pictorial representation, literary description, cartographic mappings, and the intertwining of heavenly and earthly space. It recommends that the spatial imagination in the pre-modern world cannot adequately be captured using a linear, militarily framed conceptualization. The scope and varying perspectives on the spatial imagination analyzed in the volume’s essays reveal a complex range of aspects that informs how space was designed and utilized. Due to the complexity and advanced scholarly level of the papers, the primary readership will be other scholars and advanced graduate students in history, history of science, geography, art history, religious studies, literature, and, broadly, sinology.

Author : Renée Tobe
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315533715
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Film, Architecture and Spatial Imagination written by Renée Tobe and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-08-25 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Films use architecture as visual shorthand to tell viewers everything they need to know about the characters in a short amount of time. Illustrated by a diverse range of films from different eras and cultures, this book investigates the reciprocity between film and architecture. Using a phenomenological approach, it describes how we, the viewers, can learn how to read architecture and design in film in order to see the many inherent messages. Architecture’s representational capacity contributes to the plausibility or 'reality' possible in film. The book provides an ontological understanding that clarifies and stabilizes the reciprocity of the actual world and a filmic world of illusion and human imagination, thereby shedding light on both film and architecture.

Author : Renée Tobe
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1315533723
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Film, Architecture and Spatial Imagination written by Renée Tobe and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-08-25 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Films use architecture as visual shorthand to tell viewers everything they need to know about the characters in a short amount of time. Illustrated by a diverse range of films from different eras and cultures, this book investigates the reciprocity between film and architecture. Using a phenomenological approach, it describes how we, the viewers, can learn how to read architecture and design in film in order to see the many inherent messages. Architecture’s representational capacity contributes to the plausibility or 'reality' possible in film. The book provides an ontological understanding that clarifies and stabilizes the reciprocity of the actual world and a filmic world of illusion and human imagination, thereby shedding light on both film and architecture.

Author : Darina Damm
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3346569489
Total Pages : 57 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The promotion of spatial imagination through the active use of cube structures written by Darina Damm and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2022-01-10 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examination Thesis from the year 2007 in the subject Didactics - Mathematics, grade: 1,0, , language: English, abstract: By teaching basic geometric knowledge and skills, geometry lessons make an important contribution to the development of the child's abilities and intellectual development, which enable him or her to participate in social life and to explore the world around him or her. This is because the environment is predominantly spatially structured, so that the geometric shapes and arrangements that surround us must first be understood and penetrated so that we can find our way around and orient ourselves in it. In this context, the promotion of spatial imagination through geometric content plays a particularly important role. The spatial imagination as the ability to orientate oneself in space, to reproduce spatial conditions in the imagination and to operate with them mentally is not available to children from birth. Therefore, it must be developed and promoted accordingly. If sufficient support is not provided in geometry lessons, learning difficulties in many school areas can often be the result. The effects on activities of daily life would also be devastating: catching a ball, sorting dishes into the cupboard or crossing a street are already tasks that demand spatial imagination. With this knowledge of the necessity of promoting spatial imagination through geometric content in the classroom, it is incomprehensible why geometry lessons to this day are often limited to a few hours before the holidays. Geometry lessons can build on the children's geometric knowledge and skills from their pre-school years. From this, the principle can also be derived that the promotion of spatial imagination should always be based on actions with concrete material, since ideas about objects and their movements can only develop when they have been handled in an active way. In addition, a positive attitude towards mathematics can be conveyed through this "play character". Pupils who are particularly weak in arithmetic can be motivated for arithmetic content through a sense of achievement by solving geometric tasks in an active way.

Author : Shibashis Chatterjee
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199095493
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book India’s Spatial Imaginations of South Asia written by Shibashis Chatterjee and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-12-14 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since India attained independence, its foreign policy discourse has imagined its South Asian neighbourhood through the politics of realism. This imagination explicates state interest in South Asia by establishing it as a space of sovereign territoriality. Even today, India’s foreign and security policies are primarily shaped by geopolitical centrism, and remain unaffected by economic prosperity and community concerns. As a part of the Oxford International Relations in South Asia series, this volume examines alternative conceptions of South Asian space in terms of geo-economics and community, and justifies why they have been unable to replace its dominant understanding, irrespective of the political regime. This volume probes reasons behind the relevance of differentiated cartography of territorial nationalism in our shared understanding of space, politics, society, and the community.

Author : Robert T. Tally Jr.
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253037697
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Topophrenia written by Robert T. Tally Jr. and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2018-11-09 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is our place in the world, and how do we inhabit, understand, and represent this place to others? Topophrenia gathers essays by Robert Tally that explore the relationship between space, place, and mapping, on the one hand, and literary criticism, history, and theory on the other. The book provides an introduction to spatial literary studies, exploring in detail the theory and practice of geocriticism, literary cartography, and the spatial humanities more generally. The spatial anxiety of disorientation and the need to know one's location, even if only subconsciously, is a deeply felt and shared human experience. Building on Yi Fu Tuan's "topophilia" (or love of place), Tally instead considers the notion of "topophrenia" as a simultaneous sense of place-consciousness coupled with a feeling of disorder, anxiety, and "dis-ease." He argues that no effective geography could be complete without also incorporating an awareness of the lonely, loathsome, or frightening spaces that condition our understanding of that space. Tally considers the tension between the objective ordering of a space and the subjective ways in which narrative worlds are constructed. Narrative maps present a way of understanding that seems realistic but is completely figurative. So how can these maps be used to not only understand the real world but also to put up an alternative vision of what that world might otherwise be? From Tolkien to Cervantes, Borges to More, Topophrenia provides a clear and compelling explanation of how geocriticism, the spatial humanities, and literary cartography help us to narrate, represent, and understand our place in a constantly changing world.

Author : Boris Gerasimovich Ananʹev
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Problems of Spatial Perception and Spatial Concepts written by Boris Gerasimovich Ananʹev and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Tom Inns
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351964720
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Designing for the 21st Century written by Tom Inns and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-09-02 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As we become familiar with the 21st century we can see that what we are designing is changing, new technologies support the creation of new forms of product and service, and new pressures on business and society demand the design of solutions to increasingly complex problems, sometimes local, often global in nature. Customers, users and stakeholders are no longer passive recipients of design, expectations are higher, and increased participation is often essential. This book explores these issues through the work of 21 research teams. Over a twelve-month period each of these groups held a series of workshops and events to examine different facets of future design activity as part of the UK's research council supported Designing for the 21st Century Research Initiative. Each of these 21 contributions describes the context of enquiry, the journey taken by the research team and key insights generated through discourse. Editor and Initiative Director, Tom Inns, provides an introductory chapter that suggests ways that the reader might navigate these different viewpoints.

Author : Brooke L. Rogers
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 1848881266
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Space and Place: Diversity in Reality, Imagination, and Representation written by Brooke L. Rogers and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-01-04 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: